Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda
Baltasar and Blimunda  
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Author(s) José Saramago
Original title Memorial do Convento
Translator Giovanni Pontiero
Country Portugal
Language Portuguese
Publication date 1982
Published in
English		 1987
ISBN 978-1860469015
OCLC Number 47037980
Followed by The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Baltasar and Blimunda (Portuguese: Memorial do Convento, 1982) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago.

It is a love story set in the 18th century with the construction of the Convent of Mafra, now one of Portugal's chief tourist attractions, as a background. Two young lovers interact naturally with historical characters including the composer and harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti and the priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão, recognized today as an aviation pioneer, all in the shadow of the Inquisition. The lovers are always at center stage wrapped in Saramago's language, which ranges from short simple sentences to surrealistic, unpunctuated paragraphs that help to intensify both the action and the setting.


v · d · eWorks by José Saramago
Novels
Terra do Pecado · Deste Mundo e do Outro · A Bagagem do Viajante · As Opiniões que o DL teve · Os Apontamentos · Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia · Viagem a Portugal · Baltasar and Blimunda · The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis · The Stone Raft · The History of the Siege of Lisbon · The Gospel According to Jesus Christ · Blindness · All the Names · The Cave · The Double · Seeing · Death with Interruptions · As Pequenas Memórias · The Elephant's Journey · Cain
Plays
A Noite (1979) · Que Farei Com Este Livro (1980) · A Segunda Vida de Francisco de Assis (1987) · In Nomine Dei (1993) · Don Giovanni ou O Dissoluto Absolvido (2005)
Poetry
Os Poemas Possíveis (1966) · Provavelmente Alegria (1970) · O Ano de 1993 (1975)
Short stories
Objecto Quase (1978) · Poética dos Cinco Sentidos - O Ouvido (1979)  · The Tale of the Unknown Island (1997)
Travel books
Viagem a Portugal (1981)



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